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Despite the common belief that Tudors rarely bathed, they did have personal hygiene routines. As part of a HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor life, historian Ruth Goodman shares how influential figures like Erasmus provided instructions for maintaining cleanliness, which young children were taught to follow throughout their lives. Filmed on location at Plas Mawr – an Elizabethan townhouse in Conwy, North Wales, now in the care of Cadw – our series with Ruth looks beyond the royals who often do